In the Poetic Edda the tale of Baldr's death is referred to rather than recounted at length.

After the gods gathered their wits from the immense shock and grief of Baldr's death, Frigg asked the Æsir who amongst them wished " to gain all of her love and favor " by riding the road to Hel.

The next morning, Hermóðr begs Hel to allow Baldr to ride home with him, and tells her about the great weeping the Æsir have done upon Baldr's death.

In the account of Baldr's death in Saxo Grammaticus ' early 13th century work Gesta Danorum, the dying Baldr has a dream visitation from Proserpina ( here translated as " the goddess of death "):

Some B-class bracteates showing three godly figures have been interpreted as depicting Baldr's death, the best known of these is the Fakse bracteate.

Valhalla is referenced at length in the Poetic Edda poem Grímnismál, and Helgakviða Hundingsbana II, while Valhalla receives lesser direct references in stanza 33 of the Völuspá, where the god Baldr's death is referred to as the " woe of Valhalla ", and in stanzas 1 to 3 of Hyndluljóð, where the goddess Freyja states her intention of riding to Valhalla with Hyndla, in an effort to help Óttar, as well as in stanzas 6 through 7, where Valhalla is mentioned again during a dispute between the two.

Theories have been proposed that Víðarr's silence may derive from a ritual silence or other abstentions which often accompany acts of vengeance, as for example in Völuspá and Baldrs draumar when Váli, conceived for the sole purpose of avenging Baldr's death, abstains from washing his hands and combing his hair " until he brought Baldr's adversary to the funeral pyre ".

In the 13th century Prose Edda, due to the scheming of Loki, the god Baldr is killed by his brother, the blind god Höðr, by way of a mistletoe projectile, despite the attempts of Baldr's mother, the goddess Frigg, to have all living things and inanimate objects swear an oath not to hurt Baldr after Baldr had troubling dreams of his death.

In the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, Frigg is described as weeping over her son Baldr's death in Fensalir.

After the gods gathered their wits from the immense shock and grief of Baldr's death, Frigg asked the Æsir who amongst them wished " to gain all of her love and favor " by riding the road to Hel.

It relates information on the myth of Baldr's death in a way consistent with Gylfaginning.

After Baldr's death, Nanna dies of grief.

Later in Gylfaginning ( chapter 49 ), High recounts Baldr's death in Asgard at the unwitting hands of his blind brother, Höðr.

According to Gylfaginning, a book of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, Baldr's wife is Nanna and their son is Forseti.

Versions differ, for example Baldr's return is present in Codex Regius, but absent in others.

However Hermóðr in a later passage is called Baldr's brother and also appears as son of Odin in a list of Odin's sons.

In stanza 55, at the conclusion of the contest, Vafþrúðnir is obliged to capitulate to Odin's cunning when Odin asks him what Odin whispered in Baldr's ear prior to Baldr's body being placed on the funerary ship, a question to which only Odin knows the answer ; it is a rule of the wisdom contest that questions could only be asked to which the questioner knew the answer and so it is at this point that Vafþrúðnir recognizes his guest for who he is:

Baldrs draumar ( Baldr's dreams ) or Vegtamskviða is an Eddic poem, contained in the manuscript AM 748 I 4to.

Commentators sometimes suggest Lóðurr is identical to Loki, and of course in the Icelandic texts that have come down to us it is Loki who is Baldr's real slayer, with Höðr / Hother being only a tool in Loki's plot.

Nanna is placed on Baldr's ship with his corpse and the two are set aflame and pushed out to sea.

Thor Kicks Litr onto Baldr's Burning Ship, illustration by Emil Doepler ( ca.

Loki, upon finding out about Baldr's one weakness, made a missile from mistletoe, and helped Höðr shoot it at Baldr.

Odin introduces himself under a false name and pretense and asks for information from the völva relating to Baldr's dreams.

In Sweden and Norway, it is called Baldr's brow, but in Iceland, it is the close relative Sea Mayweed ( Matricaria maritima ) that carries this name.

The Eddic poem Baldr's Dreams mentions that Baldr has bad dreams which the gods then discuss.

" Baldr's Death " ( 1817 ) by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg.

After the oaths were taken, the Æsir, aware of Baldr's newly gained invincibility, had Baldr stand in front of the thing.

Loki witnessed this and was angered by Baldr's invulnerability.

Whoever agreed was to offer Hel a ransom in exchange for Baldr's return to Asgard.

In Baldr draumar, Odin has awoken a deceased völva in Hel, and questions her repeatedly about his son Baldr's bad dreams.

" In Baldrs draumar, after the Æsir convene about the god Baldr's bad dreams, Odin places a saddle on Sleipnir and the two ride to the location of Hel.

Hermóðr agrees to ride to Hel to offer a ransom for Baldr's return, and so " then Odin's horse Sleipnir was fetched and led forward.

For instance, Gunnr's horse was a kenning for " wolf " on the Rök Runestone, in the Lay of Hyndla, the völva ( witch ) Hyndla rides a wolf, and to Baldr's funeral, the giantess Hyrrokkin arrived on a wolf.

Hermóðr, described as Baldr's brother in this source, sets out to Hel on horseback to retrieve the deceased Baldr.

: Baldr's adversary.

Whoever agreed was to offer Hel a ransom in exchange for Baldr's return to Asgard.

It is their tultul, the ' jumping platform ' of death.

Hamm's world is death and Clov may or may not get out of it to join the living child outside.

Boredom is death.

But the highroad, according to the description of its traffic, belongs to life as it is lived in unawareness of death, while the way to the churchyard belongs to some other sort of life: a suffering form, an existence wholly comprised in the awareness of death.

Only when that term is ended and he is a private citizen again can he be permitted the freedom and the courage to discount the dangers of his death.

And when the child dies in Lawrence's story in a delirium that is somehow brought on by his mania to win and to make his mother rich, the manifest absurdity of such a disease and such a death does not enter into our thoughts at all.

He is born in secrecy after the death of his father and cast adrift soon after birth.

Malraux, to be sure, does not abandon the world of violence, combat and sudden death which has become his hallmark as a creative artist, and which is the only world, apparently, in which his imagination can flame into life.

Patchen is repeatedly preoccupied with death.

He mentions the beats only once '', when he refers to their having revived through mere power and abandonment and the unwillingness to, commit death in life some idea of a decent equivalent between verbal expression and actual experience,, but the entire narrative, is written in the tiresome vocabulary `` of '' that lost `` and '' dying cause, `` and in the '' `` sprung syntax that is supposed to supplant, our mother, tongue.

What they have objected to is the attempt of the Russians to make use of the tragedy of Dag Hammarskjold's death to turn the entire U.N. staff from the Secretary down into political agents of the respective countries from which they come.

This matter is of great importance, and the outcome may mean the difference between life or death, or at least serious injuries, for many veterans.

Sir -- An old man is kicked to death by muggers.

I once heard a comedian say that if you are killed by a taxicab in New York, it is listed as `` death due to natural causes ''.

Her mother wrote Kate of her grief at the death of Kate's baby and at Jonathan's decision to go with the South `` And, dear Kate '', she wrote, `` poor Dr. Breckenridge's son Robert is now organizing a militia company to go South, to his good father's sorrow.

There is a death in all partings, she knew, and promptly put it out of her mind.

They hail from Travancore, a state in the subcontinent where Kali, the goddess of death, is worshiped.

He is confronted with the recurrent crises, such as great natural catastrophes and the great transitions of life -- marriage, incurable disease, widowhood, old age, the certainty of death.

Therefore, it is not only a question of honor but of life and death for the Soviet state ''.

the ceramic material of the age is more abundant, more diversified, and more indicative of the hopes and fears of its makers, who begin to show scenes of human life and death.

Whereas, John Brown has cheerfully risked his life in endeavoring to deliver those who are denied all rights and is this day doomed to suffer death for his efforts in behalf of those who have no helper: Therefore,

As the first collective confrontation of the Nazi outrage, the Trial of Eichmann represents a recovery of the Jews from the shock of the death camps, a recovery that took fifteen years and which is still by no means complete ( though let no one believe that it could be hastened by silence ).